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Raise taxes on all 930 billionaires in the United States
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https://www.portangelesfoodbank.org/real-talk/2025/12/5/the-poverty-line-is-a-lie-what-that-means-for-our-community
Poverty is probably closer to $130-150k for a family of four than the $31k calculated by the fed. Mostly because we still calculate the poverty line as "food costs equal to or more than 30% of your take home" and then we pour mountains of money into food subsidies, keeping the poverty line artificially low.